48–49, December 22, 1979) Fra Diavolo on the Po (La Stampa, December 14, 1986) The Sorcerers (c. 1977–78; Lilit e altri racconti, 1981) Bureau of Vital Statistics (La Stampa, June 21, 1981) The Girl in the Book (La Stampa, August 15, 1980) Buffet Dinner (La Stampa, January 22, 1977) The TV Fans from Delta Cep. (L’Astronomia, no. 54, April 1986) The Molecule’s Defiance (La Stampa, January 20, 1980) A Tranquil Star (La Stampa, January 29, 1978; then in L’Astronomia, no. 3, March–April 1978) ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated works by, among others, Roberto Calasso, Alessandro Baricco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Elena Ferrante. She Has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Award for Italian translation. ALESSANDRA BASTAGLI is the translator from the German of Jurek Becker’s The Boxer. She works as a book editor in New York. JENNY MCPHEE is the author of the novels No Ordinary Matter and The Center of Things. She is the translator of Paolo Maurensig’s Canone Inverso and Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II.
